distingue
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His shoe trees were casts that had been made from his feet, and he described himself as distingue.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bushy white beard he had, and silken hair on his head, tres distingue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Missy, as usual, was very distingue and unobtrusively well dressed.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count
Collecting himself, he was presently introduced to a smart, jaunty, and, to do him justice, distingue old beau.
From Peg Woffington by Charles Reade
Evidently unconscious of her husband's designs on Cecilia, she dismissed her briefly: "A very handsome young lady, though rather too blonde for her taste, and certainly with an air /distingue/."
From Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 06 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
He was also terribly distingué, standing more than six feet tall, nattily attired in tailored suits, ascots and polished shoes, his proper English accent softened to a buttery hush.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Though Lovick isn’t sure how rabbit-hat became a universal icon, I ventured a theory: The trick originated in the 1800s, when top hats symbolized wealth, power, a certain distingué.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
Mr. Freston’s office décor of dark blinds, hemp chairs and a surround-sound system loaded with Jamaican music and jazz promptly made way for Mr. Dauman’s sparse distingué furnishings of white, taupe and heavy wood.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2012
The club's aura is one of smart, highbrow competence, somewhere on the border of distingué and hipsterish.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2011
Amy will, of course be one of the brides’-maids, and I trust to you, my dear Mademoiselle de Chatenoeuf, to invent something very distingué for her on that occasion.
From Valerie by Frederick Marryat
